Amid the Church abuse allegations, we set out to understand how Catholics in New York City have grappled with their faith, and, in doing so, offer a window into Catholicism in one of the world's most diverse cities, where 1 in 3 residents are Catholic:

.@marianaa_alfaro and I hit all 5 boroughs and asked readers to chime in. W/ @mlouttit @traceytully & @jefurticella we honed in on 10 stories with distinct points of view that were emblematic of the city's diversity. @AFergusonPhoto magically brought them to live with his lens:
Daniel Dougherty, 58, walked away from the Church two years ago at the behest of his younger brother, Shaun Dougherty, who was sexually abused by a priest as a child.

“Shaun said, ‘You’re helping them fight me. You’re helping them raise money by collecting at church.'"
For a time, Raya Abat, 27, left the Catholic Church, but she has since come to peace with her identity as a Catholic.

"If anything, it makes it more urgent for me to stay, not to abandon this church and the people who are in it because we need to heal together."
Theresa Schliep, a senior at Fordham University, wrestles with whether to still identify as a Catholic.

"Saying that I’m not a Catholic is a huge statement. The fact that I was raised something, and I’m deciding whether or not I am still that thing.”
For Thomas McGarvey, being a follower of the Catholic Church is not only an act of devotion but, it is also an act of resistance.

Mr. McGarvey said he was 16 when he was first sexually assaulted by a priest.

“I hate saying his name,” said Mr. McGarvey, now 52.
Fernando Sánchez relied on his faith after he told his family he was gay when he was a senior in high school.

But he recently stopped going to church.

After coming out, Mr. Sánchez said he initially convinced himself that the church “didn’t hate me for being gay.”
Jacques David said he believes the cover-up of sexual abuse shows the church hierarchy has not adhered “authentically to what Jesus taught.”

“We are broken people, and so it doesn’t shock me that this has taken place. What shocks me more is sort of the response to it."
In the face of the sexual abuse scandals, Rosanna and Antonio Jimenez made a decision: to get even more involved.

"You can show everyone that this is not going to stop us,” Ms. Jimenez said. “And that, if anything, we're going to do even more.”
Kung Seung Lee, 31, began attending a Korean Mass at the St. Francis of Assisi Church in Midtown Manhattan, just a few blocks away from Koreatown.

There, he found a bustling community of newly arrived immigrants and other Koreans his age.
Rev. Agustino Torres, a Franciscan friar:

“This is a little dramatic, but the word that I felt is that the church is kind of on fire and I need to run into the building and I need to be a part of the solution.”

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कुंडली में 12 भाव होते हैं। कैसे ज्योतिष द्वारा रोग के आंकलन करते समय कुंडली के विभिन्न भावों से गणना करते हैं आज इस पर चर्चा करेंगे।
कुण्डली को कालपुरुष की संज्ञा देकर इसमें शरीर के अंगों को स्थापित कर उनसे रोग, रोगेश, रोग को बढ़ाने घटाने वाले ग्रह


रोग की स्थिति में उत्प्रेरक का कार्य करने वाले ग्रह, आयुर्वेदिक/ऐलोपैथी/होमियोपैथी में से कौन कारगर होगा इसका आँकलन, रक्त विकार, रक्त और आपरेशन की स्थिति, कौन सा आंतरिक या बाहरी अंग प्रभावित होगा इत्यादि गणना करने में कुंडली का प्रयोग किया जाता है।


मेडिकल ज्योतिष में आज के समय में Dr. K. S. Charak का नाम निर्विवाद रूप से प्रथम स्थान रखता है। उनकी लिखी कई पुस्तकें आज इस क्षेत्र में नए ज्योतिषों का मार्गदर्शन कर रही हैं।
प्रथम भाव -
इस भाव से हम व्यक्ति की रोगप्रतिरोधक क्षमता, सिर, मष्तिस्क का विचार करते हैं।


द्वितीय भाव-
दाहिना नेत्र, मुख, वाणी, नाक, गर्दन व गले के ऊपरी भाग का विचार होता है।
तृतीय भाव-
अस्थि, गला,कान, हाथ, कंधे व छाती के आंतरिक अंगों का शुरुआती भाग इत्यादि।

चतुर्थ भाव- छाती व इसके आंतरिक अंग, जातक की मानसिक स्थिति/प्रकृति, स्तन आदि की गणना की जाती है


पंचम भाव-
जातक की बुद्धि व उसकी तीव्रता,पीठ, पसलियां,पेट, हृदय की स्थिति आंकलन में प्रयोग होता है।

षष्ठ भाव-
रोग भाव कहा जाता है। कुंडली मे इसके तत्कालिक भाव स्वामी, कालपुरुष कुंडली के स्वामी, दृष्टि संबंध, रोगेश की स्थिति, रोगेश के नक्षत्र औऱ रोगेश व भाव की डिग्री इत्यादि।
How can we use language supervision to learn better visual representations for robotics?

Introducing Voltron: Language-Driven Representation Learning for Robotics!

Paper: https://t.co/gIsRPtSjKz
Models: https://t.co/NOB3cpATYG
Evaluation: https://t.co/aOzQu95J8z

🧵👇(1 / 12)


Videos of humans performing everyday tasks (Something-Something-v2, Ego4D) offer a rich and diverse resource for learning representations for robotic manipulation.

Yet, an underused part of these datasets are the rich, natural language annotations accompanying each video. (2/12)

The Voltron framework offers a simple way to use language supervision to shape representation learning, building off of prior work in representations for robotics like MVP (
https://t.co/Pb0mk9hb4i) and R3M (https://t.co/o2Fkc3fP0e).

The secret is *balance* (3/12)

Starting with a masked autoencoder over frames from these video clips, make a choice:

1) Condition on language and improve our ability to reconstruct the scene.

2) Generate language given the visual representation and improve our ability to describe what's happening. (4/12)

By trading off *conditioning* and *generation* we show that we can learn 1) better representations than prior methods, and 2) explicitly shape the balance of low and high-level features captured.

Why is the ability to shape this balance important? (5/12)

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